Political Crimes

The US is entering a very dangerous new era - one where a person can be acting in good faith to support the US and its policies, and in particular trying to stem violence and save American lives, only to later be tried for something another political party spins into being "unlawful."

There are many issues here - can a legal opinion constitute a crime; can a person be tried after-the-fact for committing a crime when the act done was legal at the time of commission, but much later (years) it be perceived as "illegal?"; why doesn't the statute of limitations apply; why doesn't presidential executive privilege apply; too many more questions to even ask.

This marks a time in the US when we're veering heavily into officially instituted political prosecution. Joe McCarthy created a very dark period in American politics when citizens were labeled as "communists," and were both prosecuted and ostracized for their political beliefs. It seems that we now have a similar situation - the Democrats are poised to hold a witch hunt for those who acted with one purpose: to keep Americans safe. The interesting thing about this comparison is that, while McCarthy's nonsense had at it's heart the well-known communist goal of overthrowing capitalism worldwide, Obama's crusade does not. it merely panders to those in his Democratic party who want to see heads roll. In this regard, the political left is more like a reliogios inquisition than it is any thing based on law and wrondgoing.

But personally, i expect nothing less from "true believers."


Probes of Bush Officials Loom - WSJ.com:

"WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama raised the possibility of prosecuting Bush administration lawyers who approved so-called enhanced interrogation techniques on terror suspects."